Why Must Holy Places Be Dark Places?
by Rebekah"Why must holy places be dark places?" This is the bitter question that epitomizes Orual's complaint against the gods in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Written from the point of view of Psyche's sister, the book is Orual's accusation against the god of the Grey Mountain for his cruelty in taking away one of the few people she ever loved: Psyche. Yet even more heinous than that is the gods' crime of veiling themselves. Orual speaks of the gods' injustice:
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